AMD Radeon RX 560 vs AMD Radeon RX 550

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1275MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 +115%

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 560 +48%

1788

Radeon RX 550

1202

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 560

3

Radeon RX 550 +100%

6

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 560

12

Radeon RX 550

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 560

21

Radeon RX 550

21

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 560 +57%

11

Radeon RX 550

7

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 560 +128%

32

Radeon RX 550

14

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 560 +100%

40

Radeon RX 550

20

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 560 +11%

94

Radeon RX 550

84

Radeon RX 560

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Radeon RX 550

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2017

Polaris

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

8

1024

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Lexa

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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